Stained Glass

I used to do stained glass and framing. I held onto a bunch of pieces but never took pictures of them, except for copyright purposes. Someday I’ll do a photo session, but these are the pictures I have at the moment. Click on the thumbnails to go to larger versions.

The pictures above and below are from a series I called “Mountains and Birds.”

The next four pieces are from a series called “Flying Saucers.” I used channel lead to tie saucers (pieces of dinnerware) to the glass. The first one is also framed in oak. I was experimenting with different lengths of outer trim to balance the appearance of the panels–more wood at the less busy corners. If you do framing I highly recommend a tool called the Lion Miter Trimmer. Great tool.

Below is a window I did with copper foil. Fish swimming into ripple lines thrown off by other fish. I planned to do a series of these with 6 fish, 7, 8, ad infinitum.

This was a little test panel I did with glass and a slice of agate. The plan here was to get into rock sawing so I could cut my own material, but you know, life is short. On to other things. This is a scanned image. The agate really glows with light coming through it.